Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story (2021)

Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by 1propionyl on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:45PM (#42661717)

> It's nearly impossible to fix. The horrors of involuntary commitment vs. the horrors of not having involuntary commitment vs. the horrors of using the criminal justice system vs. the horrors of not using the criminal justice system.

I think, frankly, and I base this on experience with family undergoing involuntary commitment in Europe... we really are still a bit collectively traumatized or basing our takes on what happened prior here in the US from past abuse of involuntary commitment systems.

It can be compassionate. It can help people get psychiatric and psychological help they didn't know how to access. It can help get people back on their feet and transition them into a return to normalcy. It can work.

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by saulpw on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:21PM (#42662409)

It can be compassionate in other places, but I think the US has proven itself to lack compassion in some pretty essential ways.

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by throwawayq3423 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:37PM (#42668363)

This really does come down to comparing small countries, where programs like this can actually work, to large countries, where the scale makes it impossible.

If your country is small and rich, government can be highly functional. But please stop comparing it to a larger place, it's apples to oranges.

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